Che Guitarra's GLAMTASM - ProfilesArchive

About Me

There once was a band called Jet Silver & The Dolls of Venus. They were the most influential and obscure bands of the UK glam scene in the early to mid seventies. BeBop Deluxe even wrote a song about them. They broke up in 1977. Heartbroken, disillusioned, and burnt-out, lead guitarist Che Guitarra went into seclusion. Twenty-five years later, mad as a hatter and convinced that modern music was still in dire need of fun, Che Guitarra created Che-Tel Records and the Glamtasm in an effort to make all the furrow-browed, angst ridden kids of the world pogo like the days of yore.
Featuring a revolving cast of musicians hand picked and wrangled by Che, the Glamtasm revives the hard rocking Glam-Pop of mid-'70s London and infuses it with the punk and metal of the same era. Kinda like the Alan Parson's Project...only Glam.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/10/2004
Band Website: www.glamtasm.com
Band Members: Click on a song's "lyrics" link for writing, production, and performance credits. The live line up currently:
Miggy Starcrunch
lead vocals, guitar, sartorial consultant
Matt "The Ruckus" Ruch
guitar, backing vocals, smiling a lot
Mahlon "Glam Danzig" Orrin
bass, backing vocals, high kicks

Drums & backing vocals... maybe you?

Che Guitarra
producer, spiritual advisor, musician wrangler, svengali
Influences: The Sweet, Slade, T.Rex, Queen, Roxy Music, Suzi Quatro, Nick Gilder, David Bowie, Mud, ELO, KISS, Gary Glitter, The Runaways, ABBA
Sounds Like: fun
Record Label: Che-Tel Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Che Guitarra's Boss Sirens and more.

Last Thursday's show at Mickey Finn's in Toledo was a ton o' fun. Miguel made his debut with The Sirens and did a decent job for learning their set in a day and practicing with them tw...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:30:00 GMT

Official Grande Debut party

Thank you Toledo for showing up in numbers like we knew you could. Thank you Chas (and Macaroni) for you're inspired lunacy. Thank you Dirty Damn Band... the bear suits were a nice touch.&...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:23:00 GMT

Toledo Free Press article 02-22-06

Toledo Confidential 02-22-06Searching for Che by Keith Bergman Seeking an audience with a music legend so enigmatic and obscure, he may not even actually exist, I recently spent time exploring the sea...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:17:00 GMT

Glamtramck, MI

Can one actually overdose on glam? This hypothesis was put to the test last Saturday and the answer is a resounding....HELL NO! For one shining moment Small's became a nexus, a quantum singulari...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:41:00 GMT

A message from Che Guitarra

Hola Rockers and Rockettes, Well, my muchachos did well last week. Their low-key proto-pre-debut test gig turned into quite a "shindig", as you gringos say. Muchas gracias to all the ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:41:00 GMT

The GLAMTASM's debut performance

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Posted by on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:44:00 GMT

Superstar/Miss X 7" single on sale now!

The Superstar/Miss X 7" single has arrived from the pressing plant and they look sweeeeeeet! Look for them in Toledo area record stores like Rama Lama Records, Culture Clash, and Madhatter Music....
Posted by on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:16:00 GMT